They should let Drew have his now tainted record. Peyton has the TDs per season record, and he'll get the well-deserved AFC MVP of 2013. And when he loses in his first game of the playoffs, he'll have more time to make commercials. It's wins for everyone.

SilentStrider:Nabb1: As much as I'd like to see Drew keep the record, I doubt he wants it back like this.

still, the NFL should make sure they get it right. they have their integrity to cons...

wow, i couldn't even type that with a straight face.

As much as I hate Manning, I don't think it would be right to take away his record at this point, since if he had been a few yards short of the record at the time when he was pulled from the game, he would have been left in until to got it.

NetOwl:SilentStrider: Nabb1: As much as I'd like to see Drew keep the record, I doubt he wants it back like this.

still, the NFL should make sure they get it right. they have their integrity to cons...

wow, i couldn't even type that with a straight face.

As much as I hate Manning, I don't think it would be right to take away his record at this point, since if he had been a few yards short of the record at the time when he was pulled from the game, he would have been left in until to got it.

That's why you don't quit right at the record. Add another 20-30 yards for safety.

Right, because that was the only questionable forward pass vs. lateral call in any of their combined 32 games, and absolutely every reception or incompletion or PI call/noncall for either of them was called correctly and every pass play always results in an exactly even number of yards gained and the ball is spotted absolutely perfectly by the refs on every single play.

Both their numbers might be off by 100 yards in either direction from the "real" number. Hell, Dan Marino might still be the actual record holder.

Something similar happened to Randy Moss that season he broke the receiving TDs record. He caught what was thought to be the record-tying TD but they went back and said it was a lateral and therefore a rushing TD for Moss. I think that one was corrected during the game though.

still, the NFL should make sure they get it right. they have their integrity to cons...

wow, i couldn't even type that with a straight face.

As much as I hate Manning, I don't think it would be right to take away his record at this point, since if he had been a few yards short of the record at the time when he was pulled from the game, he would have been left in until to got it.

That's why you don't quit right at the record. Add another 20-30 yards for safety.

Exactly. I saw that he'd broken the record by one yard and then was pulled and figured there was a chance that could come back and bite him in the butt.

dookdookdook:Right, because that was the only questionable forward pass vs. lateral call in any of their combined 32 games, and absolutely every reception or incompletion or PI call/noncall for either of them was called correctly and every pass play always results in an exactly even number of yards gained and the ball is spotted absolutely perfectly by the refs on every single play.

Both their numbers might be off by 100 yards in either direction from the "real" number. Hell, Dan Marino might still be the actual record holder.

/Human element, biatches. Deal with it.

Note the bolded word in the following quote from TFA:

"The Elias Sports Bureau reviews game tape and stat sheets for the NFL after every week of games"

That said, I seem to recall Brees not taking a single down off all of 2011, much less an entire half. Let Manning keep the record. He clearly had the better year.

still, the NFL should make sure they get it right. they have their integrity to cons...

wow, i couldn't even type that with a straight face.

As much as I hate Manning, I don't think it would be right to take away his record at this point, since if he had been a few yards short of the record at the time when he was pulled from the game, he would have been left in until to got it.

That's why you don't quit right at the record. Add another 20-30 yards for safety.

I definitely see your point, but you're balancing between two (unlikely) possibilities:

1 - You pull Manning without a "record cushion" and somehow he loses it retroactively.

2 - You leave him in and he gets caught by a blindside corner blitz, concussed, and is out for the playoffs.

I didn't watch the game, so perhaps that second scenario was even less likely than the first. But if it DID happen (and it always could), the coach would never live it down.

Slow To Return:"The Elias Sports Bureau reviews game tape and stat sheets for the NFL after every week of games"

Well I'm pretty sure that they're not re-measuring yardages down to the millimeter so that a meaningful distinction between 5477 yards and 5476 yards could be made after almost 1000 combined completions' worth of accumulated bad spots and rounding error.

NetOwl:As much as I hate Manning, I don't think it would be right to take away his record at this point, since if he had been a few yards short of the record at the time when he was pulled from the game, he would have been left in until to got it.

Not to mention this sort of record says more about the team and game than the player. Not that Peyton Manning isn't one of the best QBs, but passing is up across the board compared to earlier eras (partially due to rule changes) so that someone would break the passing record was more of an inevitability than anything.

dookdookdook:Slow To Return:"The Elias Sports Bureau reviews game tape and stat sheets for the NFL after every week of games"

Well I'm pretty sure that they're not re-measuring yardages down to the millimeter so that a meaningful distinction between 5477 yards and 5476 yards could be made after almost 1000 combined completions' worth of accumulated bad spots and rounding error.

No, but they ARE determining the difference between a forward pass and a lateral, which is what's in question here.

anyone remember that running back from the falcons back in the 70's? iirc, two years in a row he came soooo close to a thousand yard season...had 995, then 997, once due to something like this when they took yardage away. finally, the next year, he got his 1,000 yard season.

stir22:anyone remember that running back from the falcons back in the 70's? iirc, two years in a row he came soooo close to a thousand yard season...had 995, then 997, once due to something like this when they took yardage away. finally, the next year, he got his 1,000 yard season.

Representative of the unwashed masses:HaywoodJablonski: Let the balding, stat-padding midget have his silly record if it keeps him happy. He and his home dome brethren can relive those memories once they lose on the road. As usual.

Given that the Superb Owl is played at a neutral site exactly how many road games did you think that Peyton has to play?

Well, if the NFL is going to be picky, none of Manning's passes against the Raiders should count. Why? The Oakland raiders are not a professional football team. They are some high school Brittany Spears players lip-syncing and waving their arms around. The December 22nd game against San Diego is just one example. Raiders had a chance to win with 2 TDs, lots of time. A competitive professional team would attempt to score quickly, try an onside kick at least some plan to win the game. What did the Raiders do? Nothing. The Raiders called one stupid play after another.

JusticeandIndependence:HaywoodJablonski: Let the balding, stat-padding midget have his silly record if it keeps him happy. He and his home dome brethren can relive those memories once they lose on the road. As usual.

6'0" is a midget now? Wow, you must be really tall.

I think he's mainly referring to players padding their height numbers, Manning is easily over 6' while I have met some of the players Brees has played with and he seems closer to 5"10' than 6'.

stir22:anyone remember that running back from the falcons back in the 70's? iirc, two years in a row he came soooo close to a thousand yard season...had 995, then 997, once due to something like this when they took yardage away. finally, the next year, he got his 1,000 yard season.